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Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-5999-8
Publication date:
2024
Book Chapter
Afro-Asian Adjacencies
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Published:December 2024
Chapter 3, “Afro-Asian Adjacencies,” explores the racial figure of the Asian trader and Asian capitalism in colonial, apartheid, and postapartheid South Africa and across Indian Ocean geographies. Drawing on archival research, it examines the racialization of the present-day Chinese trader by returning to their predecessor, the ex-indentured Indian “Asiatic” trader, two adjacent figures that have represented the threat of Asian capitalism at different moments in South Africa. It explores the colonial triangulation between Chinese/Asian, Black/African, and white/European and the endurance of these racial figures and relations into the present.
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